Dark Revelations
Late summer
San Francisco, California
Hanging upside down is for bats and Spider-Man. Not for an Oxford-educated literature professor like me. Then again, I was no longer a professor. I was nothing but a thief. One in a lot of trouble.
It wasn't the first time I had been in that position. Wouldn't be the last, either. But then, life doesn't always turn out according to plans. For me, it never has, but I make them anyway.
Tonight's assignment was to be my last job for the Adriano family, a decision that normally only an Adriano can make. They don't exactly offer a hefty retirement plan, though it's rumored they always pay for the funeral—whether or not there's enough left of the employee for a coffin. I'd heard everyone from high-tech security specialists down to kitchen servants murmur the same epitaph: Once an employee, always an employee.
I intended to break that rule. Soon.
I flexed my bare feet hard, twisting them around the rope and held my breath. Only the crooks above my heels—where Achilles took his poison—held fast to the line strung between the rooftops. My tendons tensed an ... read full excerpt from Dark Revelations ebook
